blood-chilling

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I'm quite sure that previous Steinbeck Award recipients like Studs Terkel, Arthur Miller, and Joan Baez would have blood-chilling tales to tell in that same regard, but they never faltered, in fact they all won handsomely against the forces arrayed against them, and they are now part of our proud public idiom of intellectual independence like Mark Twain, Louis Armstrong, and Woody Guthrie.

But the most important part is convincing practitioners -- many of whom went no further than elementary school and don't undergo regular retraining -- that there is something they can do in the blood-chilling moment when a delivery goes awry.

The combination of the unsparing security apparatus, the fear of reprisals, and the efficient government propaganda had sufficiently concealed from most Iraqis the blood-chilling truth that their government had executed hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of its subjects, and had destined many more to prison and torture.

Three strides we'd taken when something whizzed like a huge hornet overhead, there was a blood-chilling shriek from behind, and as I turned my head, there they were, surging over the lip of the bank a hundred yards to my left-a dozen of those dreaded figures with their scarved heads and flying hair, bows and lances flourished, whooping like fiends as they bore after me.

Startled, I said I would, certainly, ma'am, and the Yawner spat and muttered that given his way he'd cut off more than that; he was giving blood-chilling particulars, but she snapped him into silence, took a last long look at me from those slanted pools, and then asked with perfect composure:

They're usually damned real spectres, too - as they were here, for I'd barely given my order when there was a whistle and a thud, and Grady, on the edge of the clearing, was staggering with an arrow in his brow, and with a chorus of blood-chilling screams they were on us - black, half-naked figures swarming out of the trees, yelling bloody murder.